A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design
Sole Collector has an exclusive interview up about NBA superstar Dwyane Wade starting his own line of basketball sneakers with Li-Ning.
Aside from discussing Wade’s plans with his own brand, harkening back to almost two years ago when he commissioned a designer to create a logo for his name, it also talks a little bit about his views…
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With her permission, we decided it would be fun to give a roundup of Tricia’s ethnographic adventures during the spring & summer of this year.
Hanging out at a bar, the ever evolving third space, “After a rock band performed, the stage became a tattoo station.”
Talking to a female massage worker in Changsha…
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Like pretty much anyone else paying attention to the story, I was stunned to see the images of protests in Hong Kong, with people of all ages donning black to rail against Beijing’s plan to enact national education. Hong Kongers deemed it brainwashing, a paternalistic move from Beijing to inculcate the special territory into its ways. The sheer scale of…
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A short story called Raising Whales by Xiang Zuotie. Excerpt clipped from a post on Prospect Magazine.
At dusk one evening, as cooking smoke started rising from the roofs of the houses, the head of our village came back from market with baby whales for everybody. We were going to develop the local whale-farming industry,…
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This is a collaborative post between Lyn Jeffery and Jason Li. Lyn begins by writing…
Crowdsourcing has been around for awhile (this 2006 Wired article nicely lays out the concept). Over the last three years, crowdsourcing has been applied to fundraising with stunning results on Kickstarter and Indiegogo (“Go fund yourself”), and…
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A graduate school project by Vancouver-based designer Vince Lo, the Collator font purports to create a font that melds English letters and Chinese characters together into a non-jarring stream of text.
Collator is a typeface designed to achieve greater harmony between Chinese characters and Latin letterforms when set together. Drawing inspiration from the two traditions of…
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Above: An excerpt from a six-page comic about Cheng I Sao.
Below: Excerpts from a CNN mental floss article about her:
The most successful pirate of all time controlled a fleet of more than 1,500 ships and upwards of 80,000 sailors — and she did it all without the help of facial hair.…
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Blogs on China have come and gone over the last decade. Then twitter came and everyone stopped blogging in 2006. Long form analysis was shrunken to 140 characters. But then something magical happened, a resurgence of blogs on China bursted onto the internet over the last few years!
One of the longest standing and most important blogs, Danwei, is…
Continue reading88 Bar Receives Runner Up in Danwei’s Model Worker Award 2012!